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by frithsun 3y ago
What only a small subset of highly specialized programmers should know about memory (2007) [pdf]
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by frithsun 3y ago
The mastodon team literally hard codes political censorship into its codebase. I recommend an alternative to mastodon with greater openness that you may wish to check out: twitter.com.
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by frithsun 3y ago
"every form of refuge has its price" Every lifestyle has its own pain and perks. Heck, Kato Kaelin found out the hard way that even living in a celebrity's pool house comes with its risks and problems. A lot of it boils down
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by frithsun 3y ago
I believe a lot of this was driven by fed rate shenanigans creating far more investment wealth than there were organic opportunities for investing it. All of these market-distorting startup deals were just symptoms of that broader systemic
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by frithsun 3y ago
This is why I stubbornly refuse to use Typescript. Javascript is an ECMA standard. I'll just do the JSDoc hack and cheer for TC39 rather than waste my time with a technology that's great for now but will probably end up being tech
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by frithsun 3y ago
The artificial division between the "database" and "real programming" is the original sin behind everything wrong with modern programming.
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by frithsun 4y ago
The fight for WASI is dramatically more important for the future of tech than AI, bitcoin, and all the other silly fads. If WASM gets sucked into the vortex of pragmatism and fails at its original mission of discarding all of the technical
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by frithsun 4y ago
One more threat to javascript developers trying to make it in today's economy.
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by frithsun 4y ago
Modern software is so slow because objects, by definition, are post-paradigmatic. Every program is, in essence, an exercise in metaprogramming that can't be reliably optimized, built upon, or chained together with other objects. And th